Dr. Nizar Sami, an information security expert, said: The acceleration in technology applications, access to the Internet and the use of various lactation gave a kind of curiosity to the pirates to control users on the Internet, and from there the idea of viruses that enter the computer and which developed into advanced ransom attacks came.
Sami explained, during a phone call to the "This morning" program that the ransom virus is a set of hidden programs that enter through the use of the Internet and download unknown links and sources that lead to damage to the entire operating system and the lack of ability to enter a second time except after paying a ransom for the pirated.
He continued, "There is another type of ransom virus that blocks the files on the device, and these attacks are a type of non -benign piracy that began to spread in the recent period, noting that the first appearance of ransom attacks appeared in the late 1990s and began to spread from 2005 AD.
Sami added, that prevention is better than treatment by moving away from unknown files and programs, selecting antivirals with protection and is always updated, and making a backup copy of all the files on the computer, updating operating systems and programs constantly and not clicking on unreliable links and downloading files from sitesThe trustee only and not to give personal data except to those who trust them.
